Genesis 26:14

For he had flockes of sheepe, and heards of cattell, and a mightie housholde: therefore the Philistims had enuy at him.

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.

In Context

13And the man waxed mightie, and stil increased, till he was exceeding great,

15In so much that the Philistims stopped and filled vp with earth all the welles, which his fathers seruantes digged in his father Abrahams time.

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Cross References

Genesis 13:2And Abram was very rich in cattell, in siluer and in golde.

1 Samuel 18:9Wherefore Saul had an eye on Dauid from that day forward.

Job 5:2Doubtlesse anger killeth the foolish, and enuie slayeth the idiote.

Psalms 112:3Riches and treasures shalbe in his house, and his righteousnesse endureth for euer.

Psalms 144:13That our corners may be full, and abounding with diuers sorts, and that our sheepe may bring forth thousands and ten thousand in our streetes:

Proverbs 27:4Anger is cruell, and wrath is raging: but who can stand before enuie?

Matthew Henry on Genesis 26:13-26

Isaac's Removal to Beersheba. ( b. c. 1804.) 12 Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the Lord blessed him: 13 And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great: 14 For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him. 15 For all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth. 16 And… Read the whole commentary →

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